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Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
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Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Advise none to marry or goe to warre.
Advise none to marry or goe to warre.
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he
might take the current sideways.
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he
might take the current sideways.
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?
Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.